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Understanding Large...
Understanding Large-Scale Institutional Change : Social Conflicts and the Politics of Swedish Municipal Amalgamations 1952-1974
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- Erlingsson, Gissur, 1974- (författare)
- Linköpings universitet,Centrum för kommunstrategiska studier – CKS,Filosofiska fakulteten
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- Ödalen, Jörgen, Filosofie doktor, 1975- (författare)
- Linköpings universitet,Uppsala universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,Linköping university, Sweden,Statsvetenskap,Filosofiska fakulteten
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- Wångmar, Erik, 1968- (författare)
- Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST),Linnaeus University, Sweden
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- 2015-03-04
- 2015
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of History. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 0346-8755 .- 1502-7716. ; 40:2, s. 195-214
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Abstract
Ämnesord
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- A remarkable reform in modern Swedish political history was the transformation of the local government structure between 1952 and 1974. In a mere 22 years, the number of municipalities was reduced from 2,498 to 277. This study aims to answer how such large-scale reforms could come about politically, particularly since much of the literature on institutions and political reform asserts that carrying out large-scale political change should be a difficult task. Two opposing stories of institutional change are presented: evolutionary accounts, which see the amalgamations as rational adaptations to changing circumstances, are contrasted with a social conflict perspective, which explains amalgamations in terms of their distributional consequences. By investigating the processes leading up to this vast restructuring of Swedish local political geography, we demonstrate that an understanding of these reforms as rational adaptations to changing circumstances, made on the basis of consensus among leading political actors, is not accurate. The reforms were not as uncontroversial and non-conflictual as they often have been portrayed. Our results weaken the evolutionary approach to institutional change, whilst supporting the social conflict perspective.
Ämnesord
- HUMANIORA -- Historia och arkeologi -- Historia (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- History and Archaeology -- History (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap -- Studier av offentlig förvaltning (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science -- Public Administration Studies (hsv//eng)
Nyckelord
- institutional change
- political history
- municipal amalgamations
- evolutionary theory
- social conflicts
- Public Administration Studies
- Studier av offentlig förvaltning
- Historia
Publikations- och innehållstyp
- ref (ämneskategori)
- art (ämneskategori)
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